A Kitsap County sheriff’s deputy was justified in shooting a man who opened fire on two of her colleagues outside a Port Orchard Walmart in January, Prosecutor Russell D. Hauge announced today.

Deputy Krista Rae McDonald shot 31-year-old Anthony Martinez in the left leg Jan. 23 as he sprinted across the Walmart parking lot, turned and shot two deputies as he tried to escape.

“Deputy McDonald utilized deadly force, but only after seeing two of her fellow officers shot down,” according to a 4-page report released today.

Although McDonald shot Martinez, the medical examiner ruled that he died from a …

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The brother of the man killed in a shootout with police in Port Orchard Sunday has told the Salt Lake Tribune that his brother Anthony Martinez is being wrongly characterized as a violent pedophile.

Instead, Barrett Martinez told the newspaper Thursday that his brother was attempting to save a teenage girl from a troubled home life.

It was not the first time his brother helped the girl escape a bad situation, he said.

Anthony Martinez died in the shootout in a Wal-Mart parking lot with Kitsap County Sheriff deputies after he first shot and wounded two other deputies. A teenage girl who appeared …

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The man involved in a shootout Sunday afternoon with Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies in the parking lot of the Port Orchard Wal-Mart has been identified as Anthony A. Martinez, 30, from Salt Lake City, Utah, according to the Washington State Patrol.

Trooper Krista D. Hedstrom said the Kitsap County coroner identified Martinez. He was shot and killed by a deputiy after he shot two other deputies. His companion, a teenage girl, also was shot and died at a Tacoma hospital.

The teenage girl has yet to be officially identified. An autopsy on the girl is scheduled today by the Pierce …

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